Catch Up – May 2009

More catching up
6 May
6 players, I believe Dave & Ben had another Monsterpocalypse session.

Small World 90 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Mike	90
2	Andy	89
3	Steve H	84
4	Dave D	82

I was surprised at this result, I and I think the others thought I was doing quite well, but the reality turned out a bit differently.

Dominion 60 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Andy	29
2	Mike	28
3	Steve H	27
4	Dave D	23

Andy & I went for gardens and split them 6 each, I ended up on 39 cards, 1 short of 6 extra points.
13 May
5 players

Power Grid 120 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Paul	14+
2	Dave D	14
3	Mike	13
4	Steve H	12
5	Steve Pe	11

Played on the Central Europe map
Steve H & I then left.

Katzenjammer Blues 15 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Mike	8
2	Steve Pe	4
3	Gordon	3

 
20 May
9 players, we welcomed Donald for the first time.

Planet Steam 120 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Gordon	625
2	Dave D	589
3	Donald	569
4	Steve P	549

Interesting game of resource mining on an alien planet. It has a very nice resource market mechanism, although perhaps too many auctions for my taste. The pieces are very nice, although I do think that the board is one of the ugliest I have seen.

Liberté 150 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Dave C	16
2	Steve H	14+
3	Mike	14
4	Andy	12
5	Ben C	6

I know Dave & Steve have been wanting to get this on the table for some time and they finally had a chance this week.
27 May
4 players plus Dave running Corporation in the same room having been thrown out of the bar due to the Champions League final.

Power Grid 150 mins.
Posn.	Player	Score
1	Steve H	20
2	Gordon	17
3	Dave D	15
4	Donald	11

This was played on the German map with large power plant deck, so there were 32 cities in the game and the end game trigger was 20. 3 of the 5 plants thrown out randomly at the beginning were garbage plants, so this resulted in big demand for Coal & Oil. As has been common this month I had a bad game, but I should really have had second place at the end. I spotted that I could deny Donald the Oil he needed and bought enough to do this one the last turn, but I missed that I could screw Steve in the same way by buying some more. Gordon could have ended the game at that point and would have had the victory with me second. I blame all the noise coming from the other table.
Power Grid now moves back to the number 2 game so far this year, but I can't see it overtaking Battlestar Galactica.